The Official Morrowind Thread

For action, it's basically as you please. Buy some weapons and armor (if you're nice to people and run errands and perform tasks, you'll get cash and other rewards), and you can choose to walk from town to town (instead of, say, riding the Silt Strider, which is quick and safe transportation, but nets no gaining of skills) and kill all manner of creatures along the way.

You can also break into peoples houses to steal, take on entire towns if you please (just remember to get strong first, guards are well-armored), conduct raids, and so on. You can kill literally everyone (actually, I think there might be one person in the game you can't kill, if I remember the list right), so if you don't mind getting a bounty on your head (or plan on it), you can just kill a shopowner and steal stuff (careful, many of the better places have guards who don't take kindly to that).

There are bandits to kill, and areas that you can clear out. Pretty much attack what you want, so long as you're aware of the consequences (bounty and low reputation, which will affect how people treat you and the prices you'll pay at stores).

I couldn't really tell you about magic, as I haven't experimented in that at all (aside from a "turn invisible" power I have), but you can have all sorts of fun with it from what I see.

There's tons of action if you want, though creatures are placed kind of spasely (so don't expect travelling to be a slaughter-fest, but you will kill plenty), but as you get stronger, you'll be able to fight more and take on larger enemies and stronger people. It's slow at first, but patience and planning has it's rewards.

Thanks again for the info. What I really want to know is how the combat scenes work. Is the fighting (as far as firstperson stuff goes) fun? Is the fighting most swinging a sword/knife (ala Maken X) at monsters? Also, how far can your powers go?

Forgive the delayed response, I was playing even more. At least I have this since the TV is gone.

With fighting, it's basically presented as follows: You first select from your menus what weapon you want, which is placed in the weapon-ready box. Same thing goes for magic. When you want to be ready, press either the "ready weapon" or "ready spell" button, and you'll draw your weapon/hold out your hands.

When armed with handheld weapons, your swing depends on how you step. If you stand still and prepare to swing, you'll perform an overhead chop, if you're walking forward, you'll perform a thrust, if you're stepping from side-to-side you'll perform a swing. How much damage you do depends on the weapon (attributes listed in your inventory), and whether or not it has magical abilities to add to damage. If you hold down the button instead of just pressing it, you can charge up for a more powerful swing. However, early on, misses are very common against anything above your (admittedly pathetic) power level. Works the same way for third-person, you just get to see more of it.

The hit detection is very wierd to watch, as characters don't actually have to visually hit each for the hit to connect. This can make for judgeing how far to stay out of weapon distance needlessly difficult, but I've stayed away from those who seem too strong anyway so this hasn't been a big problem (however, don't bother running from those armed with spears, they've got huge reach). Also, when hit, you tend to be "pulled" into or off to the side of the person you're fighting, which makes trying to escape very difficult if they can hit at all.

Just running around killing is fun, though I personally get great satisfaction from running up to someone with a fully powered swing and dropping them to the ground. I just got my first mission from Morag Tong (think of a legal assassin's guild) and got to do just that. Fighting most creatures so far for me hasn't been too interesting, just pretty much there for experience, but people are damned fun to go up against. And more satisfying.

As for how far powers can go, do you mean magic or all attributes? If you mean magic, someone else will have to answer, as I know almost nothing on the subject (aside from being on the recieving end of some brutal "kill me in one-to-two hits" spells), and am having trouble trying to obtain basic magic (I made a custom class that rather resembles a fighter-thief, so I shouldn't have much magic anyway). As for attributes, I don't know what the ceiling is or just how good one can get. I'm only second level (very early on I am), so most of my attributes aren't too great.

Although finding the Morag Tong gave me access to a great treasure trove, though finding people to sell everything off to is a pain.

As soon as I create a new boomspeed account, I'll upload the pics I took...but I decided that I didn't like the Seyda Neen inhabitants, so I slaughtered them ALL. I of course now have a $9040 bounty on my head, which I wont be paying off anytime soon...but it was great fun! :evil:

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Originally posted by Master
If you have an HDTV the XBOX can do some crazy resolutions. I think the problem may be your TV... :)

From an XBOX FAQ:
Maximum resolution: 1920x1080
Maximum resolution (2x32bpp frame buffers + Z): 1920x1080

Of course thats assuming you have a widescreen HDTV, if not the max would be 1440 X 1080.

All of this is ALSO assuming Morrowind supports that resolution WHICH IT BETTER!

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No Xbox games support 1920x1080 resolution at this time. Almost all only support 640x480, although hopefully that will change soon.

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The only thing the Xbox game will have going for it is the ability to play from your couch. Otherwise, mostly inferior.

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According to the developers, Morrowind has a much steadier framerate on the Xbox.

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Originally posted by Saint of Killers

No Xbox games support 1920x1080 resolution at this time. Almost all only support 640x480, although hopefully that will change soon.

According to the developers, Morrowind has a much steadier framerate on the Xbox.

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I believe it. I've got a 1.8ghz pentium 4, 256meg DDR Ram, and a Geforce 2. Yeah the geforce2 is a lil old but it gets the job done, and it still looks nice. I've been running it fine in 1024x760 (Or whatever the 2nd one is) but as soon as I pump it past that it starts gettin shakey. Even at 1024 it the framerate drops every now and then, but at 800x600 it's more or less rock solid. Either way, fantastic game.

From Gamers.com ....


Plus, I figured out what the Data Files entry is on the pre-game menu. Morrowind is going to allow gamers to create all sorts of mods in the game. One such I've heard about (download it by clicking here) modifies the game so that if you get a large enough bounty placed on your head, a character that looks like Boba Fett starts tracking you down. Even better, if you kill him, you get his cool-looking armor.

God only knows what kind of "unique" creations this is going to lead to. Bethesda is onto something here. Hopefully the bugs get no worse from here on out.





Seems pretty cool. Anyone try it yet?

Thanks again MechDeus for the input, I'm getting a clearer picture of this game, and its sounds exciting. I like how the combat seems to work, with a sidestepping attack resulting in a sweeping attack. I've never heard of anything like that before, sounds cool.

Alright, need a bit of help. I'm supposed to poison this guy's food, except that I realized once I found him that I have no poison. :sweat:

I'm guessing I can get some from an Alchemist, but after wandering Vivee a bit, I realized I can't remember where the Alchemist shop is. Can anyone confirm this or tell me where I can get poison from?

I just got to that city, so confusing.